Need Help With HTTP connection to an API

[Drturtlebot]

Hello, Im trying to make a HTTP request to an api and then display the data but im unsure on how to do it with the specific file. Any Ideas? Im trying to get the "Meta Data\6. Time Zone" words as a string from https://www.alphavantage.co/query?f...NTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=5min&apikey=demo any clues?

Trying to read that so it would display US/Eastern,
Also learning so that i can expand it to the rest of the list

 

[Binsk]

Show us your GM code for what you've tried so far.

 

[Homunculus]

Well this looks like a JSON file, you should be able to read everything using json_decode and reading a couple of values from the resulting ds_map

 

[FrostyCat]

This isn't difficult at all once you learn how to work down a JSON hierarchy. Here the path is just "Meta Data" > "6. Time Zone".

Assuming that you already have it decoded to json_data, this is all you need:

var metadata = json_data[? "Meta Data"];
var timezone = metadata[? "6. Time Zone"];

Or if you have the utility script from this post, it's a one-liner:

var timezone = json_get(json_data, "Meta Data", "6. Time Zone");